In an update to another murder last Tuesday, police say that they are still looking for a suspect in connection with the death of Ghanaian national Emmanuel Ampomah. The fifty-two-year-old cabbie was fatally stabbed inside his taxi last Tuesday night. He lost consciousness and crashed on Seashore Drive dying instantly. Today, police shared that Ampomah […]
Sanctuary Bay is quite a beautiful place. Well, this is what the Prime Minister was told and undoubtedly what recidivist scammer Andris Pukke and associates used to convince more than one thousand U.S. investors to depart with their life savings and pump their hundreds of thousands of U.S. dollars in the project. As part of […]
The son of former U.D.P. Deputy Prime Minister, Andre Vega, has been ordered by the court to return some four hundred thousand dollars to the Government of Belize. The government took Vega to court after he was compensated for a prime piece of land located along mile four of the Philip Goldson Highway, near the […]
Central to the case was the Minister’s Fiat grant, which was issued during the land transaction. The minister responsible for lands at the time was Gaspar Vega, father of Andre Vega. While Andre would not answer questions from the media, his attorney Estevan Perera was pressed on several issues relating to the case. Estevan […]
In the Belmopan Supreme Court, Justice Antoinette Moore handed down a major decision in the murder case of Danny Mason and his co-accused. At the conclusion of a voir dire this afternoon, a caution statement by accused murderer Ernest Castillo in which he takes the wrap for the beheading of Pastor Llewellyn Lucas three years […]
A two-year-old toddler was injured when a GSU vehicle ran over him about seven months on Iguana Street Extension, Belize City. Fortunately, he survived his near death ordeal. And even after the Belize Police Department had served one of their own officers with a Notice of Intended Prosecution, it took them seven months to charge […]
Tonight, we take a closer look at the millions of dollars, as much as a whopping one hundred and fifty million, approved in tax concessions to the failed Sanctuary Bay development, which is listed with a U.S. address. It resulted in millions not collected when import duties were waived. In a confidential memo to Cabinet, […]
Last Friday, the law firm of Barrow and Williams issued a statement which essentially served as a cease and desist letter warning the media against publishing or broadcasting details of a document in which serious allegations were made against Prime Minister Barrow by the Federal Trade Commission. Belize’s head of government was named by the […]
The P.U.P. has fired off a press release highly critical of the Financial Intelligence Unit, following the issuance of a statement today. The P.U.P. condemns the F.I.U.’s attempt to extricate itself from the Sanctuary Bay debacle, which it says the U.S. Federal Trade Commission is convinced it involves some level of collusion between the highest […]
An armed thief was captured on camera as he held up a store owner in southern Belize. He got away with thousands of dollars in cash, but soon enough, the long arms of the law caught up with him. Twenty-six-year-old Rasheem Garnett targeted a store in Santa Rosa, Stann Creek District and held up its […]
Four officers have been placed on interdiction following the shooting death of former teacher, Allyson Major Junior. Major was shot by one of the cops during a police chase that ended in the area of the Swing Bridge on Tuesday evening and caused his death hours later. The incident has sparked public outrage bringing the […]
This evening the Commissioner of Police Chester Williams met the media, he has been tasked by the Minister of National Security with putting together a special team of investigators to ascertain definitively what transpired on Tuesday evening that resulted in Major’s demise. According to the ComPol, the team will consist of seasoned officers whose background […]
As part of the ongoing investigation, Commissioner Williams outlined the steps that will be taken, including a forensic analysis of the bullets fired, to determine who shot and killed Allyson Major Junior. According to the ComPol, the unnecessary use of lethal force is a factor in the probe. Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police “There […]
So, with the spate of unrelated murders that gripped Belize City on Tuesday evening, Commissioner Williams has decided to, with immediate effect, reinstitute a curfew for children which was met with resistance sometime ago when it was introduced for the first time. The catch, he says, is that the police department will now be going […]
The Sanctuary Bay scam is back in the news tonight. First, there is a response from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission which tells News Five that the matter is still under litigation following statements made that there is a settlement after a damming report was made to a U.S. bankruptcy court, throwing not stones, but […]
In November 2012, former C.E.O. in the Ministry of Trade and Investment, Mike Singh, told the Sanctuary Bay investors that the Belizean government stood committed to help develop the project. During today’s press conference, the P.U.P.’s Kareem Musa produced a 2011 memorandum, not seen before, which reportedly offers Eco Futures Belize Limited—one of the many […]
In the multitude of documents, the F.T.C. points out that the Financial Intelligence Unit was warned by then Central Bank Governor Glen Ysaguirre, via email, of an ongoing investigation into massive violations of our Foreign Exchange Regulations by the principals and developers of the S.R.W.R. real estate project. That email was sent to the then […]
Four persons were killed in the mayhem of a very violent Tuesday evening. In a span of five hours, two were killed and died on the spot, while two others succumbed hours after they were injured and there is nothing to indicate any connection in the violent spree. The violence started in the crowded downtown […]
Allyson Major was a very close friend of Caribbean Shores Area Representative Kareem Musa and a lifelong friend of former COLA President Giovanni Brackett. Like Major’s immediate family, both men are also reeling from his senseless death. This afternoon, they shared fond memories of the teacher, from personal accounts of having spent time with him. […]
A Belize City vendor was shot and killed on Tuesday evening shortly after the shooting of Allyson Major Junior. Naturalized Belizean Jose Diaz, a clothing vendor, was inside his small shop on Cemetery Road when he was murdered. At this time, police are looking for two persons of interest in connection with this homicide. Police […]
The following story is heart-wrenching. A six-month-old beautiful baby of Belizean parents was left abandoned at a hospital in San Benito Poite, in Guatemala. The parents, from what we gather, are Belizeans Victor Manuel Avilez and Tameka Vargas. Now, the infant was admitted at the hospital as Kyle Manuel Avilez Junior and authorities are looking […]
One of the murders in Tuesday night’s madness that is baffling police involves Ghanaian Emmanuel Ampomah. The fifty-two-year-old cabbie was fatally stabbed inside his taxi by his fare after eight o’clock. He lost consciousness and crashed on Seashore Drive dying instantly. Ampomah has no family in Belize; he is well known in this area of […]
A feud between rival groups in the area of Antelope Street Extension has resulted in the stabbing death of nineteen-year-old Nixon Pinto. Sometime around six o’clock on Tuesday evening, Pinto and another man, identified as nineteen-year-old Jovi Hernandez, got into an altercation at the Lord Ridge Cemetery in the vicinity of Western Avenue. Hernandez, a […]
The Mayor of San Ignacio Earl Trapp and his wife were victims on Tuesday night of the violence that is sweeping across the country and spares no one. The Trapp’s were inside their house when armed thieves, who were posing as police officers, targeted them. The mayor’s wife was held at gunpoint when the fake […]
Mayhem in the city, where two late evening shootings have left one man dead and another injured. But tonight, we go first to a major drug bust early this morning near the Haulover Bridge; it netted drugs and cash, as well as the apprehension of the big fish. The Financial Intelligence Unit has been called […]
